ROKS Gunsan (PCC-757)
| History | |
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 Republic of Korea |
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| Name: | Gunsan |
| Namesake: | Gunsan |
| Builder: | Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Ulsan, South Korea |
| Commissioned: | 1984 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 September 2011 |
| Identification: | PCC-757 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Pohang-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 1,200 tonnes |
| Length: | 88 m (288 ft 9 in)[1] |
| Draft: | 2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)[2] |
| Propulsion: | CODOG unit[1] |
| Speed: |
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| Range: | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km; 4,600 mi)[1] |
| Crew: | 104[3] |
| Armament: |
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ROKS Gunsan (PCC-757) is a Pohang-class corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). The ship is named after the South Korean city of Gunsan.
Design
Armament
The ship's armament consists of[1][2] two OTO Melara 76 mm/62 compact guns and two Bofors 40 mm/70 guns. The ship also carries Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles.
Gunsan was also supplied with six Lua error in Module:Convert at line 272: attempt to index local 'cat' (a nil value). Mark 46 torpedoes and twelve Mark 9 depth charges.
Service history
In 1984, Gunsan was commissioned into the Korean Navy.
On 29 September 2011, Gunsan was decommissioned by the ROKN.[4] The ship was to be transferred as a gift to the Armada de Colombia,[4] however, a Donghae-class corvette was exchanged instead.
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